Example sentences of "[art] [noun] look down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the wizard looked down at the six big coins in his hand . |
| 2 | They need every bit of information that they can lay their chips on , so Xillix had to redesign the video camera with which the computer looks down its microscope . |
| 3 | The Archbishop looked down at the floor and shook his head . |
| 4 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
| 5 | On the day John-Augustus went char fishing on Buttermere with Mr Robinson and Mary went above the woods to look down on them , Coleridge passed between them . |
| 6 | Swirling sand made visibility terrible — I had to fly the aircraft looking down through the side window because I could n't see ahead . |
| 7 | The night before they move Howard sits on the terrace looking down upon the city for the last time . |
| 8 | But sitting up in the bedroom looking down towards the river , she was asking herself more often of late whether meat and clothing were all there was to life . |
| 9 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 10 | She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and went over to the window to look down at the courtyard . |
| 11 | Toby went to the window to look down , then pulled his head back in , his face pale with fear . |
| 12 | On either side of him the warders looked down onto the other landings , watching for any signs of unrest amongst those below . |
| 13 | The portrait looked down at her . |
| 14 | The texture of the novel is in part created by the juxtaposition of dead metaphors and new ones created by slight adjustments to the normal patterns of the language : " … the sun looked down into the top of the dead tree and breathed warmly on the two people " ( p. 142 ) . |
| 15 | The Baron looked down at their butterfly colours , and saw they were very old and much used . |
| 16 | The boy looked down , abashed . |
| 17 | Again the boy looked down at his hands , staring at his arms and legs as if they did n't belong to him . |
| 18 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 19 | Whitlock said , pausing in front of the desk to look down at Kolchinsky . |
| 20 | The lady looked down . |
| 21 | The two men made their way silently along the roof , until they were seated on either side of the skylight looking down into the deserted corridor below . |
| 22 | The Collector looked down at the gaunt , upturned faces gathered at the foot of the stairs . |
| 23 | ( a ) Preston Capes An ironstone village , with its church on the hill looking down towards Fawsley . |
| 24 | Lee turned her head to the right to look down at him . |
| 25 | The watchman looked down at his feet , embarrassed . |
| 26 | If Joe had not caught her , she would be there now , walking up the dale to look down on the sleeping cottage . |
| 27 | And when they played a high chutter , normally given in response to snakes , the majority of the monkeys looked down . |
| 28 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 29 | She sat in the chair looking down at her hands , at the floor — anywhere but at me . |
| 30 | The flat looked down on the dome of the Planetarium . |